The Social Media Response to Nice Was Heartbreakingly Familiar

Once again, people around the world are using social media to express shock and outrage and offer condolences and help over a terrorist attack.

In what has become a heartbreaking routine—employed during the Paris attacks of 2015, as well as after recent terrorist attacks in such places as Belgium and Istanbul — people shared emotional memes in solidarity with the city of Nice, where 84 people were killed by a truck driver barrelling into the crowd on the Promenade des Anglais.

Using the hashtags #PrayForNice or #JeSuisNice, people expressed solidarity over the deaths of at least 84 people, which French President Francois Hollande says was caused by an act of terrorism.

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Help has been offered using the hashtag #PorteOuverte, or Open Door, where Nice social media users are offering strangers in Nice shelter after the attack. The hashtag was similarly used during last November's Paris attacks: